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Former Profs Leave $15M to Point Park University

A couple of former part-time professors have left $15 million to Point Park University in Pittsburgh, the largest gift in the school's history.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the gift is nearly half of the school's $31 million endowment.

It was left to the school by the estate of George and Kathleen White, who never attended the school before both of them taught there as part-time professors after moving to the Pittsburgh area in their 50s.

George White worked as a physicist before he died in 2012 and Kathleen, who died last year, had been an electrical engineer.

The Whites supported the arts and were regular attendees at the school's performing arts center, the Pittsburgh Playhouse.

The school plans to use $5 million of the gift to move the playhouse from the city's Oakland neighborhood to downtown.